Jews

million people died during the Holocaust, 6 million were Jews, and 1.1 million were children. During the later years of World War 2, Nazis started ordering all Jews to live within a certain area, called a ghetto. Some ghettos began as an “open” environment, which meant the Jewish residents could leave their homes, and community during the day but must come home before curfew. Later, they were forced to be “closed” ghettos, trapping the Jews inside the confined ghetto. The largest ghetto was…

The history of Jews in Speyer reaches back the last 1000 years ago. Most of preindustrial history, religious minorities were the victims of persecution. Violence against religious and ethnic minorities remains a major problem in many developing countries even today. Violence against the Jews mostly was caused by factors such as religiously motivated anti-Semitism. One of the reasons why the Jews were asked to settle in Speyer was their role in money and trading business especially with the…

speaks about a boy, Ben Kamm, and the challenges some 350,000 Jews in Warsaw faced when Hitler invaded Poland. “‘Eliminate the Jews,’ Hitler proclaimed, ‘and you will eliminate all of Germany’s problems!’” (6.) Not only was this a threat to Warsaw, but it was also a threat to Europe’s 9.8 million Jews. Ben, being a Jew himself, lived through “one of the darkest and most evil chapters in history: the Holocaust.” (6) Ben, and countless other Jews, were frightened and concerned about what would…

refused to help the Jews during the Holocaust, the Nazis and Germans were more responsible for their deaths. The Germans were actually responsible for the capturing, tormenting, and killing of the Jews while other countries refused to save the Jews from the concentration camps. Leaders of countries who knew about the German’s treatment of the Jews who refused to help were not as responsible of the deaths of Jews because they weren’t the ones who were actually killing the Jews. When Wiesel was…

from the early 1930s to the mid 1940s. The Jewish people resisted admirably against the Nazis during World War II to regain their dignity through armed and unarmed resistances. One form of resistance perpetrated by the Jews was armed resistance; which is where the Jews would arm themselves with whatever could be used as a weapon and stand against Nazi soldiers. An example of armed resistance is the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. “As German SS and police units entered the ghetto, members of the…

movie is in the countryside, near a concentration camp, Auschwitz, is held for Jews. The setting of the countryside is where most the action takes place, between the Bruno, the German boy, and Shmuel, the Jew. The time period of this movie dates back to World War II, when Hitler was in power and there was cruelty against the Jews in Germany. We can see this by the situation represented towards the beginning as the Jews were escorted out of their homes. We can also infer this because there were…

selected, were murdered in crematoria. These were places where the Jews were burned. They’re were also many hangings that took place as a consequence for acting out. You could also be shot on the spot for this same offense. In the stories I have read, consisting of “Night”, “Terrible Things”, and “First They Came…

The 1992 book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, written by Christopher R. Browning, seeks to understand the police officers behind the blitzkrieg against Polish Jews during the German military offensive of 1942. Rather than focus on the liquidation of major ghettos in Warsaw and in Lodz, this study focuses on the smaller towns and villages that included significant Jewish populations in Central Poland. By examining indictments and judgements from legal…

idea of God was dramatically changed in a less trustworthy way, and many Jewish people felt that without this bond between them and God, there was no meaning and no need for Jewish life. The idea of a divine and omnipotent power disappeared, as the Jews could not accept…

beings looking at each other! Here is just forest and rocks and water and nothing rotten in it."” [http://solomonsmusic.net/WagHit.htm] This racial metaphor is not the only mention of his politics in music. In the Ring of Nibelung Wagner links the Jews to Nibelungs, goblins, and the lust for gold especially in the character Alberich. [http://solomonsmusic.net/WagHit.htm] Both Chopin and Liszt were also known to be anti-Semitic, but still much of their music is still played in Israel. Of course,…